PRINCESS DIANA brutally snubbed Dodi Fayed, who she had been seeing for two months before they both tragically died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

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The Princess of Wales had divorced Prince Charles a year before and her affections were now directed towards the Egyptian film producer. Dodi was the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of Harrods, and there had been rumours that he and Diana were going to get married. However, a friend of Diana’s, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, told the inquest into her death that Diana had no such intentions.

Diana made a brutal comment about the possibility of marrying Dodi (Image: GETTY)

Newspapers the day after Diana and Dodi's fatal car crash (Image: GETTY)

“She might have been having a wonderful time with him, I’m sure, but I thought her remark that she needed marriage like a rash meant she was not serious about it.”

Indeed, Diana had just got out of a long and difficult marriage, and probably didn’t want to jump straight into another one.

What’s more, she was apparently concerned about what her sons might think about her relationship with Dodi after it was splashed across the newspapers.

Diana had taken Princes William and Harry on a yachting holiday in the south of France in July 1997, during which they spent time on Mohamad Al-Fayed’s yacht, but she still needed to be sensitive to how they felt regarding the breakdown of her marriage to Charles.

Diana and her sons went on holiday on Mohamed Al-Fayed's yacht in July 1997 (Image: GETTY)